One of my best guy friends (a big guy) who I have known for what seems like forever asked me an interesting question the other day after he happened upon my blog: "what about big GUYS living in a skinny world?"
I have to admit the coverage on this site is a bit one sided (well TOTALLY one sided up until this point...perhaps because I've only always been a girl). But his question made me wonder, do big guys go through the same thing us big girls do?
I have always acknowledged that bigger people in general are certainly treated different than the rest of the skinny world, but I can't help but think that it is perhaps more acceptable for a guy to be big? In forming this opinion I look to all the successful big guys (Chris Farley, John Candy, Jonah Hill, John Belushi, Drew Carey, etc.), and it seems like bigger guys can more easily make light of their size, and are often considered the funny, big, "teddy bear" that everyone knows and loves. Whereas big girls are largely considered gross. Maybe I am biased because I can only see things from the big female perspective, but I definitely do think there's more to my friend's question than meets the eye.
Big guys out there reading this...thoughts?!
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